Experimental investigations of the effect of thickness on fracture toughness of metallic foils
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2005
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Kang, Yi Lan
Zhang, Zhi-Feng
Wang, Huai-Wen
Qin, Qing Hua
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The effect of thickness on the fracture toughness JC of metallic foil was investigated experimentally. Double-edge cracked specimens, made of copper foils with thicknesses t ranging from 0.02 to 1 mm, were loaded in tension till fracture. The digital speckle correlation method (DSCM) was used to evaluate the strain fields around the crack tip, allowing determination of the J integral. The fracture toughness defined as the value of the J integral at cracking initiation was shown to first increase with increasing thickness, then to reach a maximum for a thickness of about 0.3 mm and finally to decrease at larger thicknesses. Optical and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) results showed that this significant effect of thickness is essentially attributable to the change in the work required per unit area during crack tip necking and in the work required per unit area during material separation.
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Keywords: Copper; Correlation methods; Crack initiation; Cracks; Fracture toughness; Scanning electron microscopy; Speckle; Strain; Thickness measurement; Crack tip necking; Digital speckle correlation method (DSCM); Double-edge cracked specimens; Optical electron Digital speckle correlation method; Fracture toughness; Metallic foil; Thickness effect
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Materials Science and Engineering A
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